Quotes of: Performance-art Keyword

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

Baz Luhrmann

I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

Banksy

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Boris Pasternak

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

Bryan Procter

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

Benmont Tench

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Beatrice Wood

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

Carl Andre

It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.

Chris Van Allsburg

We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.

Chris Bangle

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

Clive Bell

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Charlie Chaplin

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

Carmen Electra

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

Carly Fiorina

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

Craig Ferguson

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.

Christo

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

Charles Ives

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

Christian Morgenstern

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

Carlos Slim

There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first.

Charlie Trotter

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

Conrad Veidt

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Dean Acheson